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Mary Coble is an American feminist artist. Coble was born in 1978 and is from Julian, North Carolina. Coble currently lives and has a studio in Gothenburg, Sweden. She is a professor at the Funen Art Academy in Odense, Denmark.〔(Mary Coble: biography )〕 Coble is an advocate for the LGBT community, as her art revolves around the injustice the community faces. Coble has had fifteen solo performances/exhibitions, and has been in numerous group exhibitions. Coble received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 2001. She then went on to receive her Master of Fine Arts from The George Washington University in Washington, DC in 2004. Coble has taught and has had residencies at several schools and studios across the world. Mary Coble discovered her interest in making images late in her college years, after her first photography course. Starting with making art of things that frustrated her, and later evolving into making political art. ==Installations and performances== Some of Mary Coble's more notable performances have been about issues surrounding the LGBT community. One of Coble's first solo performances, ''Note to Self'' performed in New York in 2005, Coble collected 436 names of gay, lesbian, bi, and transgender individuals that died due to hate crimes; as there was no official documentation before. Coble had the names tattooed on her body, which took twelve hours, without ink creating an image of blood. Then each name was duplicated on a sheet of paper and the prints were hung on the wall. The use of inkless tattooing was to reference the brutality of the murders, many victims and slurs carved into their bodies. Her most recent performance, ''Deferral'', performed and installed at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington DC, dealt with FDA regulations banning men who have had sex with other men since 1977 from donating blood.〔“(Blood Donations from Men Who Have Sex with Other Men Questions and Answers )”, US Food and Drug Administration, 2013 August 19 (retrieved 2014 May 20)〕 Coble collected slogans for blood donation campaigns and printed them on separation screens you may see at a donation site, there was also an outlines superhero repeated on many screens around the installation. Over the course of four days, Coble worked with a group of gay men who altered the superhero images with red string, as to replace their ''unacceptable'' blood. Coble had blood drawn on site and then used it to paint the word deferral in Morse code on the screens. When asked in an interview with the Huffington Post about why she chose to do a performance on this topic, Coble responded that as it is "...an interest in queer issues of social injustice threads throughout my work. The White House is across from The Corcoran as is the Red Cross-- and so everything just came together." As most of Coble's performances involve causing herself harm/pain; creating a beautiful yet frightening visual confrontation with the issues at hand. "It is not about hurting myself. It's the only way I can think to Express these ideas that my audience will have a strong enough connection to." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mary Coble」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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